SETTINGS: The Late 1500s and beyond: the streets of Italy CAST • FLAMINIO SCALA Charismatic, larger-than life leader of the troupe. • COLUMBINA Voluptuous, comic and passionate leading lady, the mistress of Flaminio. • FRANCESCO ANDREINI Endearing, charismatic, ambitious. Plays the character of "Arlechino" in the troupe's shows. Married to Isabella. • ISABELLA ANDREINI Beautiful, educated, comic talents, the wife of Francesco. • ARMANDA RAGUSA An endearingly innocent little dwarf who plays comic roles, Unrequitedly in love with Faminio. • DOTTORE GRAZIANO A failed elixir salesman who now plays the pompous, Latin-spouting doctor • PANTALONE A former tailor who now plays the plays misers and old fathers in their plays. Unrequitedly in love with Columbina. MUSICAL NUMBERS 1. Prologue - Flaminio Scala, Company of The Glorious Ones 2. The Glorious Ones - Flaminio Scala, Company of The Glorious Ones 3. Making Love - Columbina, Flaminio Scala, Company of The Glorious Ones 4. Pantalone Alone - Pantalone, Flaminio Scala 5. The Comedy Of Love - Pantalone, Julyana Soelistyo 6. Madness To Act - Flaminio Scala 7. Absalom - Francesco Andreini 8. Flaminio Scala’s Historical Journey To France - Dottore, Flaminio Scala, Isabella Andreini, Francesco Andreini, Julyana Soelistyo, Columbina, Pantalone 9. Armanda’s Tarantella - Julyana Soelistyo, Men of The Glorious Ones 10. Improvisation - Flaminio Scala 11. The World She Writes - Isabella Andreini, Francesco Andreini 12. Opposite You - Isabella Andreini, Francesco Andreini 13. My Body Wasn’t Why - Columbina, Flaminio Scala 14. Flaminio Scala’s Ominous Dream - Flaminio Scala, Company of The Glorious Ones 15. Rise And Fall - Dottore, Company of The Glorious Ones 16. The Moon Woman - Isabella Andreini, Flaminio Scala, Company of The Glorious Ones 17. The Glorious Ones (Reprise) - Flaminio Scala, Company of The Glorious Ones 18. I Was Here - Flaminio Scala 19. Armanda’s Sack - Julyana Soelistyo, Pantalone, Columbina, Dottore, Isabella Andreini, Francesco Andreini 20. Finale: The Comedy Of Love - Flaminio Scala, Company of The Glorious Ones 21. My Body Wasn’t Why (Broadcast Version) - Columbina 22. I Was Here (Broadcast Version) - Flaminio Scala INSTRUMENTATION: Bass Cello Horn Keyboard 2 Percussion Reed 1 alto recorder, Bb clarinet, Eb clarinet, flute, piccolo Off Broadway Cast Recording
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